Per the press release, the description of the series reads: “Cuba, its doors finally open to the world. But a secret war brews there, a clash between opposing sects of Santeria, the ancient religion born on the island. Two undercover agents investigating a bizarre murder are pulled into this supernatural conflict and discover it’s more dangerous and far-reaching than anything they could have imagined.”

For those who may not be aware, in brief, Santeria is an African-Caribbean religion based on a fusion of different Yoruba beliefs and traditions, and Roman Catholicism, that grew out of the slave trade in Cuba. The religion is also known as La Regla Lucumi, and the Rule of Osha. What exactly Starz and company have in mind for this “supernatural series” I can’t say; I haven’t read a script. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t ambivalent about a Hollywood production based on any African mythology. I fear that this could be some Eli Roth-esque thoughtless exercise in reinforcing certain colonial stereotypes and stigmas used to demonize/*other* a group of people.

But it’s maybe calming that Cuban writers are behind the series. Although their previous work doesn’t entirely win me over.